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A maintenance worker fell to his death Jan. 31 from a cell tower in Cameron County, Texas. The next day, a cell phone tower collapsed in Clarksburg, W.Va. Minutes later a second tower at the same Clarksburg site also fell. The collapse of these two towers resulted in the deaths of two workers and a firefighter responding to the scene, and sent two other employees to the hospital with serious ...

Two workers were free climbing, or climbing without safety lines, a 195-foot communication tower under construction without adequate fall protection in Coolville. As a result, Morlan Enterprises has been cited for one willful and eight serious safety violations by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. OSHA has proposed penalties ...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Optica Network Technologies, which operates as Pinpoint Towers LLC, with three serious safety violations after a worker was fatally injured during a fall from a communications tower on Nov. 23 at work site in Wichita. The 25-year-old worker was performing maintenance when he fell about 50 feet while descending ...

-Combined chlorines fall from 0.9 ppm to just 0.3 ppm- Since replacing its ozone water treatment system with two Hanovia UV disinfection systems, Alton Towers Resort, the UK’s leading theme park resort, has seen a dramatic fall in combined chlorines in its large indoor leisure pool – from 0.9 ppm to just 0.3 ppm. Combined chlorine levels in its whirl ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has updated its Communications Tower directive regarding the use of hoist systems used to move workers to and from workstations on communication towers. This follows an alarming increase in preventable injuries and fatalities ...

– Following the death of two workers from the collapse of a cell tower they were dismantling March 25, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Wireless Horizon Inc. for two willful and four serious safety violations. OSHA placed the company in the Severe Violator Enforcement ...

Custom Tower LLC of Scott, La., has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration for one willful safety violation following the death of a worker who fell approximately 125 feet while attempting to install a microwave dish on a cellular tower along Highway 149 in Louise. OSHA initiated the August inspection in response to the fatality. "This ...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a stark warning that companies face robust enforcement action following its prosecution of Everest Ltd, after workers were found to be repeatedly exposed to the risk of falling from height. Everest Ltd, of Sopers Road, Cuffley, Potters Bar, was fined £6,000 with £15,963.25 costs, at Luton Magistrates’ Court today (April 30), after pleading guilty ...

Florjan Nilaj and Gazmend Vukaj left their Michigan homes and traveled 260 miles south to Oxford for a commercial painting job never thinking that Oct. 24, 2014, might be the last day of their lives. The two men, 25-year-old Nilaj and 40-year-old Vukaj, were seven stories above ground on an electric two-point scaffold. ...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited South River-based Mr. Concrete Corp. with four repeat and five serious safety violations, including scaffold and fall hazards, found at a Maywood work site. OSHA's February inspection was initiated in response to imminent fall hazards observed by an OSHA compliance officer. The repeat violations, with $69,300 ...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Harrison Hoist Inc. of Grand Prairie with six serious safety violations following a tower crane collapse at the University of Texas at Dallas' Richardson campus that killed two workers. The workers were trying to remove the top portion of the crane's mast when it collapsed; causing them to fall more than 150 ...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a stark warning that companies face robust enforcement action following its prosecution of Everest Ltd, after workers were found to be repeatedly exposed to the risk of falling from height. Everest Ltd, of Sopers Road, Cuffley, Potters Bar, was fined £6,000 with £15,963.25 costs, at Luton Magistrates’ Court today (April 30), after pleading guilty ...

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued citations to three contractors with proposed penalties totaling US$313,500 for alleged violations of safety standards after investigating the catastrophic March 15 collapse of a tower crane in New York City that killed seven people. The accident took place at 303 E. 51st St. in midtown Manhattan. Cited were Rapetti Rigging ...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Las Vegas-based NV Energy for seven alleged safety and health violations, including six serious, following an investigation into a worker's death on Sept. 25, 2012. A lineman in training died when he fell 75 feet from a temporary horizontal ladder used as a platform between a transmission tower and a live ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on April 1 announced a final rule (RIN 1218-AB67) to update protections for workers performing construction or maintenance at power plants or on power lines, closing out more than a decade of rulemaking. The new rule brings OSHA's electricity construction standard in ...

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the Volkswagen Group of America with the regional 2014 EPA Rain Catcher Award in the Commercial Category for the Chattanooga, Tennessee Assembly Plant. The award was given at an award ceremony during the Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4/International Erosion Control Association Municipal Wet Weather Stormwater Conference, in ...

Leading supplier of explosion proof and industrial grade lighting equipment Larson Electronics announced the release of a solar powered generator with a manual crank mast. This solar light tower includes 4 solar panels, a solar charging system, battery bank and a mast mounted on a trailer with outriggers and a removable tongue. The ...

Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant's concentrated sun rays - "streamers," for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair. Federal wildlife investigators who visited the BrightSource Energy plant last year and watched as birds burned and fell, reporting an average of one "streamer" every two minutes, ...

Core, one of the most recognized providers of commercial indoor air quality (IAQ) services, provides Legionella testing services to protect building inhabitants from the dangers of Legionnaires’ disease. Pennsauken, NJ, August 12th, 2010 Last month it was reported that at least 31 people became ill at Selfridge Air National Guard Base in ...

A windy stretch of the Mojave Desert once roamed by tortoises and coyotes has been transformed by hundreds of thousands of mirrors into the largest solar power plant of its type in the world, a milestone for a growing industry that is testing the balance between wilderness conservation and the pursuit of green energy across the West. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, sprawling across ...

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